Archives for
February 2013

Audi is waging an all out war -- against itself. To promote the new 2013 RS 4 Avant, Audi has strapped paintball guns onto two of the models, one black and one white, and put them through the "Ultimate Paintball Duel." Using yellow and blue paint, th...

LinkedIn announced Thursday that HP has become the first company on the social network to hit one million followers. Nick Besbeas, VP of marketing at LinkedIn, explained in a blog post that HP built up a following by posting relevant updates and insi...

Game developers are working on independent projects more than ever and primarily creating games for tablets and mobile, according to data released by the company behind the annual Game Developers Conference. The survey polled 2,500 North American gam...

Klout wants to make you a VIP. The service launched VIP Perks Thursday, a new feature in its iPhone app that offers VIP incentives to Klout users. The first perk will launch at the South by Southwest Conferences (SXSW) next week: VIP mezzanine ticket...

OUYA, the $99 hack-able Android game console, announced it will ship the console to its Kickstarter backers March 28. The console shattered Kickstarter records during its campaign, raising more than $1 million in 24 hours and raising more than $8.6 m...

Bradley Manning effectively admitted during court proceedings Thursday to providing Wikileaks with classified military documents and footage. Manning also claimed he first tried to contact several U.S. news organizations before going to Wikileaks. Ma...

Typically, we think of dogs as sidekicks, best friends, perhaps even confidantes. But rarely do we discover a dog who is a also a lucrative business partner. Maddie the Coonhound is already famous in the Instagram community, where her owner and photo...

Whether you're looking to make industry contacts or learn the latest trends in advertising, technology and media, Mashable's Events Board has something for you. We picked four of the latest events, listed below, to give you an idea of the possibiliti...

It will begin as a wave of nostalgia. You'll watch this video by CollegeHumor and slowly recall those tender moments from your childhood when you curled up with a Yoo-hoo and plugged in the VCR for some Land Before Time action. Then it will dawn on y...

Got a question for David? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live. David Hauser is a young entrepreneur based out of Boston, MA, Austin, TX and Las Vegas, NV. Having launched more than five start-ups, entrepreneurship is his passion, and e...

Nothing helps shed those winter blues better than some dogs frolicking in the snow. But that's not what you're getting here. SEE ALSO: Pug Surprise Will Bring You to Tears Instead, you're getting four pugs in color-coordinated winter garb somberly ri...

YouTube updated its iOS app Thursday, adding the Send-to-TV feature it introduced for Android in November of last year. With the update you can use your iOS device to send YouTube clips to Google TV, Xbox or PlayStation 3 and watch them on the big sc...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason came up with a great idea the other day that has nothing to do with daily deals. Mason, who was ousted after his company reported poor results in the fourth quarter, tweeted a proposal that would have profound implications fo...

The Pebble smart watch is the most successful Kickstarter project in history, raising more than $10 million from more than 69,000 backers. At CES 2013, the company revealed final details of the device, and showed off the shipping device to the public...

After tweeting his farewell, the entire Twitter history of Pope Benedict XVI has been deleted today from the @Pontifex account. No official statement has yet explained why Benedict's past tweets were deleted. The name on the account has also been cha...

The next time you visit Dunkin’ Donuts, you’ll be able to use Passbook on your iPhone to pay your bill. This new feature is available via the company’s latest app update. First released in August, the free Dunkin’ Donuts app gives customers the optio...

Remember this morning when you had to get dressed? First the pants, then the shirt, then the socks, jacket, hat, belt. Sheesh, it's enough work to send someone straight back to bed. Enter the adult onesie. SEE ALSO: Your Tumblr Dashboard Sings the Hi...

Twenty-four hours after reporting disappointing first-quarter earnings (a move that sent its stock down more than 25% in after-hours), Groupon announced Thursday afternoon that co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason will no longer hold the top post at the c...

There are far more female CEO's today than when Carly Fiorina first took over the top job at Hewlett-Packard in 1999. In fact, when Marissa Mayer took over as CEO at Yahoo in July of 2012, there were 20 women on the Fortune 500 CEO list -- a new reco...

A new Android app promises to help make your Harlem Shake video dreams come true. Called Harlem Shake Video Creator, the app offers step-by-step directions for creating your own Harlem Shake clip, as well as a built-in music track for making the magi...

Digital ad agency Razorfish will peddle its services at South by Southwest via some 20 self-tweeting bicycles. The bikes, which will be planted strategically or "bike bombed" at events during the Interactive portion of the festival, will include GPS ...

Victor Garber, star of the NBC drama Deception, jokingly compares himself to Beyoncé. Just like Queen B, the actor takes to the big screen, sings and even busts some moves. But Garber is referring to his presence, or lack thereof, on Twitter. On Thur...

Justin Bieber was photographed leaving his London hotel room in a yellow spiky hat, thus providing fodder for a millennium's worth of Bieber jokes. And while there are plenty of Bieber haters to call out the pop idol for his hideous life choices, the...

Some good news for fans of the original and best version of The Office: Ricky Gervais is coming back as antihero David Brent. Gervais, who looks remarkably unchanged in 10 years down to his Van Dyke beard, has evolved the character somewhat. Brent, s...

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